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Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s top immigration advisers, advocated using U.S. predator drones in 2018 to blow up migrant boats full of unarmed civilians, according to an upcoming book by a former administration official.
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Submitted at 06-27-2023, 12:21 AM by Forensic | |
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In a short speech full of vitriol, Mr Putin vowed to bring the organisers of the revolt "to justice".
But he called regular Wagner troops "patriots" who would be allowed to join the army, go to Belarus or return home.
He did not directly name Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who earlier denied trying to overthrow Mr Putin's regime. | |
Submitted at 06-27-2023, 12:00 AM by Nibbles | |
One doctor’s Promethean quest to grow the male member is leaving some men desperate and disfigured. | |
Submitted at 06-26-2023, 10:41 PM by Wreckard | |
Central Council of Jews says it is devastated by populist party’s first victory in eastern town of Sonneberg | |
Submitted at 06-26-2023, 04:47 PM by sleeppoor | |
A new Oxfam survey on worker well-being compares us to the other advanced and semi-advanced economies. America remains exceptional-y bad.
When it comes to the affordability of medications, a number of our political leaders note that they’re a lot cheaper in Canada. Noted radical Bernie Sanders will sometimes observe that access to health care more generally, as well as things like paid sick leave and affordable (or even free) child care, are available in much of Europe.
Such international comparisons, however, barely scratch the surface. A fuller appreciation of American exceptionalism has now been made available by the folks at Oxfam, who have produced a multifaceted and exhaustive study of the 38 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These are countries, to quote the survey, that are “similar to the United States, in that they commit to democracy and free-market economies, and have relatively robust gross domestic products.” They include not only countries in Western Europe and Canada, but also Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia; former Soviet bloc nations (Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania); and, for good measure, Turkey, Israel, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico. | |
Submitted at 06-26-2023, 03:46 PM by sleeppoor | |
Crypto criminals had little to fear from prosecutor Erin West a year ago. Now, she teaches law enforcement how to hunt for stolen crypto | |
Submitted at 06-26-2023, 03:47 AM by Grief Bacon | |
Mario Nawfal is a citizen journalist who started out as the founder of Froothie, a surprisingly controversial kitchen appliance company.
In 2015, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissioner ordered Froothie Australia to pay a $10,800 false or misleading pricing penalty for wrongly claiming that its Optimum 9400 blender had been marked down on sale. In 2017, the ill-fated Silicon Valley startup Juicero launched proceedings against Froothie’s American arm for its role in importing an allegedly patent-infringing blender (the lawsuit never eventuated as Juicero went bust).
Nawfal left the company but told Crikey he’s still the company’s 100% shareholder. Since then, he’s gone on to launch a handful of other companies, including his most recent venture, International Blockchain Consulting. | |
Submitted at 06-26-2023, 04:12 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 06-26-2023, 04:01 AM by A Fistful Of Double Downs | |
The law’s passage has enraged workers’ advocates, who warn that it will result in even more heat-related deaths and illnesses in a state that already tallies the highest number of worker deaths due to high temperatures. | |
Submitted at 06-25-2023, 09:55 PM by Nibbles | |
A Florida man and his stepson died Friday while hiking at the Big Bend National Park in Texas, according to officials. | |
Submitted at 06-25-2023, 07:45 PM by Nibbles | |
Submitted at 06-25-2023, 03:59 AM by Grief Bacon | |
The scam by an unnamed company promised up to 150% returns on investment in 100 days, raising about about $127 million. | |
Submitted at 06-25-2023, 04:35 AM by Disruptive Emotional-Support Pig | |
An Uber driver died days after a passenger was accused of shooting him, believing she was being kidnapped, Texas cops say.
Phoebe Copas, 48, is now charged with murder following the June 16 shooting, the El Paso Police Department said in a June 22 news release. She is being held in the El Paso jail on a $1.5 million bond.
Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, was taken off life support Wednesday, his niece said in a Facebook post.
Police said Copas, of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, was visiting her boyfriend in El Paso and took an Uber to meet him at a casino after he got off work, according to KFOX.
When Copas saw signs during the drive for Juarez, Mexico, she believed Piedra was kidnapping her, KTSM reported.
“At some point during the drive, Copas thought she was being taken into Mexico and shot Piedra,” police said. “The investigation does not support that a kidnapping took place or that Piedra was veering from Copas’ destination.”
Police said Piedra was shot “in the back of the head and wrist” while driving on U.S. 54, KVIA reported. | |
Submitted at 06-25-2023, 02:20 AM by sleeppoor | |
Not paying Twitter to run your free bot? Your automated account may get the boot. | |
Submitted at 06-24-2023, 07:57 PM by sleeppoor | |
Three of the railcars that derailed into the Yellowstone River were carrying hot asphalt and four were carrying molten sulfur, a county official said. | |
Submitted at 06-24-2023, 07:44 PM by sleeppoor | |
The elite members-only sex club Snctm said it has issued a ban on its founder, Damon Lawner, for violating its code of conduct. His transgression: naming Hunter Biden as a former member. | |
Submitted at 06-24-2023, 07:33 PM by sleeppoor | |
For many years, the bet was mostly forgotten. That is, until a few years ago, when it was resurfaced by Per Snaprud, a science journalist based in Stockholm who had interviewed Chalmers back in 1998. His recording of the chat reminded the pair of the terms they had set in the wager and the case of wine that was at stake. | |
Submitted at 06-24-2023, 05:57 PM by Nibbles | |
Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah. | |
Submitted at 06-24-2023, 04:17 AM by John Holmes Boxxyfucker | |
Year is 2023. The whole Internet is under the control of the GAFAM empire. All? No. Because a few small villages are resisting the oppression. And some of those villages started to agregate, forming the "Fediverse".
With debates around Twitter and Reddit, the Fediverse started to gain fame and attention. People started to use it for real. The empire started to notice. | |
Submitted at 06-24-2023, 01:49 AM by thirteen3seven | |
Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. Today, a spokesperson for the startup said an investigation by the board of directors concluded 95% of those users were “automated or from bots.”
As a result of the probe, the spokesperson said the company would shut down and return capital to shareholders, two months after it suspended the founder and CEO, Abraham Shahi, for alleged misconduct. IRL raised $200 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Founders Fund and others, before coming under scrutiny in a series of articles in The Information, which questioned its user number claims. | |
Submitted at 06-23-2023, 11:49 PM by Forensic | |

Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s top immigration advisers, advocated using U.S. predator drones in 2018 to blow up migrant boats full of unarmed civilians, according to an upcoming book by a former administration official.
In a short speech full of vitriol, Mr Putin vowed to bring the organisers of the revolt "to justice".
But he called regular Wagner troops "patriots" who would be allowed to join the army, go to Belarus or return home.
He did not directly name Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who earlier denied trying to overthrow Mr Putin's regime.
One doctor’s Promethean quest to grow the male member is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.
Central Council of Jews says it is devastated by populist party’s first victory in eastern town of Sonneberg
A new Oxfam survey on worker well-being compares us to the other advanced and semi-advanced economies. America remains exceptional-y bad.
When it comes to the affordability of medications, a number of our political leaders note that they’re a lot cheaper in Canada. Noted radical Bernie Sanders will sometimes observe that access to health care more generally, as well as things like paid sick leave and affordable (or even free) child care, are available in much of Europe.
Such international comparisons, however, barely scratch the surface. A fuller appreciation of American exceptionalism has now been made available by the folks at Oxfam, who have produced a multifaceted and exhaustive study of the 38 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These are countries, to quote the survey, that are “similar to the United States, in that they commit to democracy and free-market economies, and have relatively robust gross domestic products.” They include not only countries in Western Europe and Canada, but also Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia; former Soviet bloc nations (Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania); and, for good measure, Turkey, Israel, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
Crypto criminals had little to fear from prosecutor Erin West a year ago. Now, she teaches law enforcement how to hunt for stolen crypto
Mario Nawfal is a citizen journalist who started out as the founder of Froothie, a surprisingly controversial kitchen appliance company.
In 2015, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissioner ordered Froothie Australia to pay a $10,800 false or misleading pricing penalty for wrongly claiming that its Optimum 9400 blender had been marked down on sale. In 2017, the ill-fated Silicon Valley startup Juicero launched proceedings against Froothie’s American arm for its role in importing an allegedly patent-infringing blender (the lawsuit never eventuated as Juicero went bust).
Nawfal left the company but told Crikey he’s still the company’s 100% shareholder. Since then, he’s gone on to launch a handful of other companies, including his most recent venture, International Blockchain Consulting.
The law’s passage has enraged workers’ advocates, who warn that it will result in even more heat-related deaths and illnesses in a state that already tallies the highest number of worker deaths due to high temperatures.
A Florida man and his stepson died Friday while hiking at the Big Bend National Park in Texas, according to officials.
The scam by an unnamed company promised up to 150% returns on investment in 100 days, raising about about $127 million.
An Uber driver died days after a passenger was accused of shooting him, believing she was being kidnapped, Texas cops say.
Phoebe Copas, 48, is now charged with murder following the June 16 shooting, the El Paso Police Department said in a June 22 news release. She is being held in the El Paso jail on a $1.5 million bond.
Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, was taken off life support Wednesday, his niece said in a Facebook post.
Police said Copas, of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, was visiting her boyfriend in El Paso and took an Uber to meet him at a casino after he got off work, according to KFOX.
When Copas saw signs during the drive for Juarez, Mexico, she believed Piedra was kidnapping her, KTSM reported.
“At some point during the drive, Copas thought she was being taken into Mexico and shot Piedra,” police said. “The investigation does not support that a kidnapping took place or that Piedra was veering from Copas’ destination.”
Police said Piedra was shot “in the back of the head and wrist” while driving on U.S. 54, KVIA reported.
Not paying Twitter to run your free bot? Your automated account may get the boot.
Three of the railcars that derailed into the Yellowstone River were carrying hot asphalt and four were carrying molten sulfur, a county official said.
The elite members-only sex club Snctm said it has issued a ban on its founder, Damon Lawner, for violating its code of conduct. His transgression: naming Hunter Biden as a former member.
For many years, the bet was mostly forgotten. That is, until a few years ago, when it was resurfaced by Per Snaprud, a science journalist based in Stockholm who had interviewed Chalmers back in 1998. His recording of the chat reminded the pair of the terms they had set in the wager and the case of wine that was at stake.
Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah.
Year is 2023. The whole Internet is under the control of the GAFAM empire. All? No. Because a few small villages are resisting the oppression. And some of those villages started to agregate, forming the "Fediverse".
With debates around Twitter and Reddit, the Fediverse started to gain fame and attention. People started to use it for real. The empire started to notice.
Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. Today, a spokesperson for the startup said an investigation by the board of directors concluded 95% of those users were “automated or from bots.”
As a result of the probe, the spokesperson said the company would shut down and return capital to shareholders, two months after it suspended the founder and CEO, Abraham Shahi, for alleged misconduct. IRL raised $200 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Founders Fund and others, before coming under scrutiny in a series of articles in The Information, which questioned its user number claims.